Medicine: Tattoo Suspected

A tattooed man is one and a half times as likely to be rejected by the
U.S. armed forces as an unillustrated man. He is one and a half times
as likely to be a psychiatric rejection. This conclusion was forced
upon Captain Joseph Lander and Corporal Harold M. Kohn as a result of
thousands of psychiatric examinations of recruits. The two Army
examiners, who report their findings in the American Journal of
Psychiatry, also conclude that:

¶About 58% of rejected tattooees are rejected for neuropsychiatric abnormalities.